WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1647

sufficient to pay the indebtedness subsequently incurred, it
shall be the duty of the attorney general to ' bring in the
name of the State an action against any county in the Circuit
Court of such county so failing aforesaid to enforce the levy-
ing of said tax for the recovery of the amount due the State,
as aforesaid. Upon the failure of any county to levy such tax
as aforesaid to an amount sufficient to pay the amount then
due the State, it shall be the duty of the State Comptroller
to charge such delinquent county with a penalty of interest at
one per centum per month upon the amount of indebtedness
for each month until payment thereof and penalty thereon be
paid. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer, upon the
collection of the taxes herein required to be levied, to pay
into the State Treasury the amount due and owing from
his county at the time and in the manner required for the
payment of State taxes collected. Whenever the superintend-
ent of any State hospital for the insane and Rosewood State
Training School has held and treated a patient as from one
county, and the County Commissioners of such county makes
claim that such patient is not a proper charge against the
said county, and such County Commissioners shall notify the
State Comptroller that it is claimed by them that such pa-
tient is not a proper charge against their county, and shall
claim that the said patient is a proper charge against some
other county, it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners
of each of said counties to file such proofs as they may have
with the State Comptroller within thirty days from the time
of such notification and thereupon it shall be the duty of the
State Comptroller to investigate the question of the residence
of such patient and to determine of what county said patient
is a proper charge, and shall thereupon notify each of said
counties and the Department of Mental Hygiene of such de-
termination, and shall notify the superintendent of the State
hospital for the insane or Rosewood State Training School,
and the counties aforesaid shall thereafter treat and regard
such patient as of the county according to the determination
of the State Comptroller, and if the State Comptroller shall
find that such patient is not a proper charge against any
county of the State, such patient shall thereafter be regarded
as a proper charge against the State at Large. The amount
incurred by any county of this State, or by the State for
treatment and maintenance for any insane person in the State
hospitals for the insane and Rosewood State Training School
shall be a charge against the estate of such person as provided
in Section 4.

50. The Department of Mental Hygiene shall have power
and authority to make arrangements with similar bodies